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Cleveleys was smothered in a thick carpet of white foam 1m deep during high winds last Thursday

The seaside town of Cleveleys, near Blackpool, was smothered in a thick carpet
of white foam 1m (3ft) deep during high winds last Thursday (News, December
30).

Roads, cars, houses and people were engulfed in what looked like washing-up
suds. It was blamed on a combination of decomposing algal matter churned up
with the tide on a westerly wind blowing off the Irish Sea.

This was not the first seaside resort to be inundated by foam. In January
2003, Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast was swamped in foam that blew off
the sea on a high tide.

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